BIO:  J. S. BRANDT, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania
   
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  >From Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania,
  Chicago: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905, pages 741-742
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    J. S. BRANDT, one of the prosperous business men of Mt. Holly Springs,
  South Middleton township, Cumberland county, Pa., is a son of the well known
  Christian Brandt.

    Christian Brandt was a shoemaker by trade and followed that occupation for
  a number of years, but on account of failing health was obliged to abandon
  that line of work. He turned his attention to agricultural pursuits, buying a
  small farm in Monroe township, in the cultivation of which he was successfully
  engaged to the time of his death, at the age of seventy-five years. He was a
  stanch supporter of the principles promulgated by the Republican party, and
  did much to advance that party's interests in the neighborhood in which he
  lived. He was called upon to fill minor township offices, and served as tax
  collector for some years. He and his wife were consistent and valued members
  of the Lutheran Church, and upon several occasions he was called upon to fill
  Church offices. He was a man who was held in the highest esteem in the
  community in which he lived. Mr. Brandt married Elizabeth M. Morrette, and
  they became the parents of the following children: (1) Fannie E. married John
  G. Leidigh, and they live at Martinsburg, W. Va.; they have had six children:
  Elizabeth, Elmer E., Jennie (deceased), Thomas, Bertie (deceased) and Joseph.
  (2) Elizabeth M. married Simon Gloss, and lives at Mt. Holly Springs, where
  her husband was a carpenter until his death; they had children, Frank,
  Minnie, Nellie, Elizabeth, Samuel, David and Christy. (3) Leah married
  William Bross, and lives at Shippensburg, where he is a merchant tailor; they
  have one child, Jennie. (4) Jacob died at the age of ten years, in Monroe
  township. (5) J. S. is the subject of this sketch.

    J. S. Brandt was born in Monroe township, Oct. 29, 1849, and was educated in
  that township, where he learned the trade of a saddler. After completing his
  apprenticeship at Carlisle, he followed his trade for about three and
  one-half years, when he located at Mt. Holly Springs. After a year there, he
  moved to Monroe township, and worked at his trade for eleven years, and also
  did farming, raising tobacco. His next change was made to Plainfield, West
  Pennsboro, where he remained ten years, and he then returned to Mt. Holly
  Springs, and purchased a fine residence and lot of eighty feet frontage at
  No. 34 Baltimore avenue. A few doors away from his residence he built a
  structure in which he has a barber shop, a saddler shop and general store.
  His barber shop is in the hands of skilled barbers, and his entire
  establishment is conducted along modern methods, he controlling a very large
  and constantly increasing trade.

    In 1876 Mr. Brandt married Mary A. Beidler, of West Pennsboro township,
  daughter of John and Mary (Kauffman) Beidler, and they have the following
  children: Mary E. married Percy Harmon, who is in business at Mt. Holly; John
  K. B. married Myrtle Leidigh, daughter of John B. Leidigh, and is a butcher of
  Mt. Holly; Walter M. is at home learning the barber's trade.

    In politics, Mr. Brandt is a Republican,

    742  CUMBERLAND COUNTY.

  and has served on the town council for three years. He was assessor and
  registrar of Monroe township, and has always been a prominent factor in the
  ranks of the party. He is a member of the Order of American Mechanics, and
  the Daughters of America (the Ladies' Auxiliary of that order).